My sister is a textile artist, makes beautiful stuff, but isn't much of a techie. I never thought I'd send her an article I found on TechDirt. I'm really pleased to be wrong in that assumption. This is right up her alley!
No, people are pointing out that if you buy a legitimate item, make a copy of it, and then give the legitimate item away, that THEN the copy is a form of infringement.
No one said that either making a backup was illigitmate, or that giving away a legitimate copy was illigitimate.
Umm... last I checked, making back-up copies of items legitimately bought, and the transfer of authorized physical copies are not forms of piracy at all. Why use them in your examples?
You don't care because your argument doesn't hold water.
If I want to read a new book and it's too expensive and I can't order it in my country, is it wrong for me to borrow it from a friend? Or from a library? If not, then why is it wrong to download a copy?
The onus should not be on the customer to find a way to pay. The onus should be on the company / provider to make available what the customer wants. If the customer service sucks, why pay for it?
If there is a legitimate reason to not release the code in the UK, such as licensing or laws, then shouldn't the company at least let its customer service reps know that so they can give a reasonable explanation to customers? If I was truthfully told a bad law was the reason I couldn't get software I wanted, I'd be much less likely to be upset at the company and more likely to be upset at the government, which may mean I'd settle for the older version.
Also, if there's a legitimate reason to not sell in the UK, why even prohibit customers from buying a copy in another region and importing it? Did they sign a deal so draconian that they can get in trouble for the actions of individual consumers?
And I don't see this so much as justifying pirating. It's not saying "If a company is stupid, you can go pirate from them, guilt free". It's more the point of "If a company is stupid, this WILL happen. They should anticipate it and stop being stupid"
Wow, does he ever sound bitter. I hope EFF and Citizens for Public Justice continue with this. A guy acting this childish and sleazy shouldn't be allowed to get away scott free. He gives the lawyers who give lawyers a bad name a bad name.
Wait wait wait... some guy spends the time to edit a 90 minute film, GTA is used as the base technology, people lend their voices to the project, etc, etc, etc... but there's 1 song that Universal Music holds the copyright on, so they're the only ones allowed to make money from it?
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These are usually proposed by the "Legalus Bullius"
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No one said that either making a backup was illigitmate, or that giving away a legitimate copy was illigitimate.
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If I want to read a new book and it's too expensive and I can't order it in my country, is it wrong for me to borrow it from a friend? Or from a library? If not, then why is it wrong to download a copy?
The onus should not be on the customer to find a way to pay. The onus should be on the company / provider to make available what the customer wants. If the customer service sucks, why pay for it?
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Also, if there's a legitimate reason to not sell in the UK, why even prohibit customers from buying a copy in another region and importing it? Did they sign a deal so draconian that they can get in trouble for the actions of individual consumers?
And I don't see this so much as justifying pirating. It's not saying "If a company is stupid, you can go pirate from them, guilt free". It's more the point of "If a company is stupid, this WILL happen. They should anticipate it and stop being stupid"
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